Prostitution Sweep Ends in Arrests of 60
A two-day “prostitution-trick task force” operation by the Los Angeles Police Department resulted in 61 arrests in Pacoima and Sun Valley this weekend, according to police spokesman Sgt. Jay Frey.
The operation, carried out by undercover women vice officers from the Foothill Division, targeted alleged prostitution customers at two intersections.
“It was the result of citizen complaints about visible prostitution in those areas,” Frey said. “And female pedestrians had complained they were being solicited when they walked there.”
The task force began Friday night at San Fernando Road and Kelowna Street in Pacoima, with 26 men arrested for solicitation of prostitution and one for cocaine possession.
On Saturday night, it moved to San Fernando Road and Allegheny Street, where 34 arrests were made for solicitation.
All but five of the men arrested were processed through the department’s immediate book-and-release system, under which they are not jailed but have to go to court at a later date, Frey said. Held in the Foothill Division Jail was the man arrested on the cocaine charge.
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